Print Email Facebook Twitter The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK Title The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK Author Feijten, P. Van Ham, M. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Date 2013-05-29 Abstract Union dissolution is well known to have a disruptive effect on the housing situation of those involved, and often leads to downward moves on the “housing ladder”. Much less is known about the geographies of residential mobility after union dissolution. There are, however, reasons to expect that those who experienced a union dissolution have a different likelihood of moving over longer distances than those who stay in a union, because of different moving motives. This study contributes to the existing literature by investigating the occurrences of moves, distances moved and the destinations of moves after union dissolution. The paper also contributes to the literature by investigating the effect on mobility not only of divorce, but also of splitting up and repartnering. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and logistic regression models, we found that union dissolution has a signifi cant effect on the occurrence of moves and on moving distances. Subject union dissolutionsplitting updivorcehousing careerspatial mobilitylongitudinal dataBHPSUnited Kingdom To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ad6c1761-487a-4323-af15-d7e9bd54c08d Publisher Federal Institute for Population Research ISSN 1869-8980 Source https://doi.org/10.4232/10.CPoS-2013-10en Source Comparative Population Studies, 38 (2), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2013 Federal Institute for Population Research Files PDF ENGPR_042_PUBLISHER_PDF_2 ... VH_CPS.pdf 204.69 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ad6c1761-487a-4323-af15-d7e9bd54c08d/datastream/OBJ/view